joining me now is retired navy admiral james lyons. thank you for being on the program. >> it is nice to be here. >> he seemed very upset about the situation. explain why? >> this attack should not have come as a surprise to anyone. we know that the bricks and the red cross blood of benghazi in the middle of the summer because of the deteriorating security situation. we had the 16th of august message from the consulate. stating they could not defend that consulate against the coordinated attack. it was al qaeda affiliated, running wild, the government had lost all control of eastern libya. on the day of the attack, the blue mountains security manager who actually hired the 17th of february martyrs brigade to protect the consulate says there was something wrong. he put out an alert on both of the radios and cell phones. in fact, there have been reported that there was a split between him and the martyrs brigade. after that, we have a group that we know three hours before the attack, the al sharia militia, the al qaeda affiliated, was se